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Quotes About Mimic

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
~ Plato
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
~ Matthew Barney
There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.
~ Art Carney
TV is all about learning to write in someone else's voice, so if you do it long enough without selling your own project, they assume you don't have your own voice; you're just a good mimic.
~ Noah Hawley
My dancing is definitely influenced by African house parties that loosen me up over the years when I was eight years old. Just trying to mimic my Aunties and I kind of learned the flow from there.
~ Bree Runway
It seemed to Rowan that the Texas region had embraced its roots, and had chosen to mimic the Old West the way Tonists mimicked mortal-age religions.
~ Neal Shusterman
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
~ Joseph Addison
If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The attempt looked so strange that Scipio started to mimic him behind his back. What's the silly giggling about? Barbarossa asked when Prosper and Renzo bust out laughing.
~ Cornelia Funke
You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.
~ Hank Azaria
Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
~ Ira Glass
Just seeing someone express an emotion can evoke that mood, whether you realize you mimic the facial expression or not. This happens to us all the time—there's a dance, a synchrony, a transmission of emotions. This mood synchrony determines whether you feel an interaction went well or not." The
~ Daniel Goleman
I have a kind of innate sense of structure, which also makes me a good mimic.
~ Michael Moorcock
I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I could steal from. I was an imitator. That's what I was. It was years before I could take all of these things that I loved about all of these different artists and put them together and find my voice.
~ Michael Buble
Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
~ Huston Smith
It's me. Hell's bells, there isn't anything that I can think of that would mimic me looking like this. Even demonic fiends from the nether regions of hell have some taste.
~ Jim Butcher
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
~ John Dryden
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
~ Matthew Barney
He could probably even guess what Harry would say next in that calm, amused voice of his that seemed to mimic every adult you never wanted to meet.
~ Patrick Ness
1.Does the church in America have a prophetic role in its own society, or does it simply mimic the culture and entertain its members?
~ Unknown